Artemis II crew reveals what snack they ate right after splashdown

CBS Mornings Artemis II crew reveals what they ate right after splashdown: "I got some peanut M&Ms, anybody want some?" .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-cbs-mornings.jpg'); } By Mark Osborne May 1, 2026 / 9:10 AM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Even though times have changed since the early days of dehydrated ice cream, astronaut food is notoriously bland. It's also designed not to have crumbs, since they could float around all over the capsule.But candy isn't a problem.When the Artemis II crew returned to Earth, the first thing they ate — before they were rescued from their capsule — was peanut M&Ms, commander Reid Wiseman said Friday during a "CBS Mornings" town hall, "Artemis II: A Celebration of Heroes." Wiseman and fellow astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen answered questions from students about their historic mission at the event."When we landed, we splashed down into the Pacific Ocean, waiting for the rescue forces to come open the hatch, and Christina, out of her spacesuit pocket, goes, 'I got some peanut M&Ms, anybody want some?'" Wiseman said, making the crew and the kids at the town hall laugh. "And so we're leaning against the side of the spacecraft, just come back from the moon, eating peanut M&Ms; we were happy." It wasn't the only time food came up as a talking point on the space flight. People back on Earth couldn't help but notice a jar of Nutella floating through the capsule just minutes before the four astronauts set the record for the farthest any human has ever traveled from Earth.  @cbsnews A jar of Nutella was seen floating through the Orion spacecraft approximately 4 minutes before the Artemis II crew made history as they passed the Apollo 13 distance record from 1970 of 248,655 miles from Earth on Monday. #NASA #artemis #space #moon #apollo ♬ original sound - cbsnews The jar was seen floating just behind Koch's h...